Céline Louche

Céline Louche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in interactions between business and society, covering topics such as corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance.

Academic career

Louche completed a PhD titled Ethical investment: processes and mechanisms of institutionalisation in the Netherlands, 1990–2002 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Louche worked at Triodos Bank in The Netherlands, as a sustainability advisor, before entering academia. Louche was assistant professor of corporate responsibility at the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, and associate professor at the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France.

Louche joined the faculty of the School of Management and Marketing Operations at University of Waikato, rising to full professor. Louche researches topics like corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance.

Louche is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Business & Society, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, M@n@gement and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Organization & Environment. Louche has had visiting fellowships at Stanford University and University of California Berkeley.

Selected works